
Pool ( kw, Poll) is a village in
Carn Brea civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
in west
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlan ...
, England. It is bypassed by the
A30, on the
A3047 between
Camborne
Camborne ( kw, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth, Cornwall, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove ...
and
Redruth
Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan a ...
, between
Tuckingmill and
Illogan Highway.
Facilities
Shops in the village include: a
Tesco Extra
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, on the site of
Heathcoat's textile factory; a
Morrisons
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on the site of the Flamingo Ballroom; and a
B&Q DIY Store, on the site of
Holman's Climax factory. Local businesses include Pool Market, a weekend market stall operation; and Macsalvors which specialises in factory clearance and sells goods ranging from chandlery, building tools and material, new and used office furniture, etc.
Pool is part of the ecclesiastical parish of
Illogan, and part of the civil parish of
Carn Brea.
Trevenson Church is the village's
Church of England
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place of worship.
Other facilities include Pool Health Centre; Carn Brea Leisure Centre (the first leisure centre in Cornwall to be run as a charitable trust);
Heartlands, a visitor attraction and
World Heritage Site
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, based around South Crofty's Robinson's Shaft; and
East Pool mine, another industrial heritage centre, consisting of one of the largest surviving Cornish beam engines at Taylor's Shaft, and a restored winding engine at Michell's Shaft.
Transport
The nearest railway stations are at and on the
Cornish Main Line.
Carn Brea railway station closed to passengers in 1961 and freight in 1967. It was the main depot of the
West Cornwall Railway
The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between P ...
.
The village is served by a number of
First Kernow routes to the major towns in the area such as
St Ives,
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situ ...
,
Truro
Truro (; kw, Truru) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census. People of Truro c ...
,
Helston
Helston ( kw, Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately east of Penzance and south-west of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map she ...
and
Falmouth.
Employment
Major employers are Pool Industrial Estate, and the Pool Innovation Centre which opened in 2010 as part of regeneration work to stimulate economic growth and development in the heartlands of Cornwall.
South Crofty Tin Mine is currently owned by Canadian mining company Strongbow Exploration Inc after buying the site from Western United Mines. Strongbow are currently in the process of constructing a water treatment plant to dewater the mine ahead of conducting a feasibility study with the aim of bringing full scale mining back to Cornwall through the introduction of modern mining methods.
Education
Cornwall College's Camborne campus (formerly Camborne Technical College, or 'Tech' & Camborne, Redruth and Pool College) is based here; it provides A-Level, degree and adult education courses.
Pool Academy (formerly Pool Business & Enterprise College, Pool Comprehensive School before that), provides education for the 11–16 age range. The
Camborne School of Mines was based in the village from 1975 until 2004, before moving to the
Exeter University
, mottoeng = "We Follow the Light"
, established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter)
, type = Public
...
's campus at
Tremough
Penryn Campus (formerly Tremough Campus, Cornwall Campus and similar names) is a university campus in Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK. The campus is occupied by two university institutions: Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, with th ...
, near
Penryn, Cornwall.
Town status
Cornwall Council and
Carn Brea Parish Council are carrying out a consultation that asks whether Pool should be reclassified as a town rather than a village.
Sport
Duchy Hockey Club are based at Pool Academy. The club fields three Men's teams and one women's team in addition to various junior age groups, and compete in the West of England regional league.
See also
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Trevenson
Trevenson ( kw, Trevensyn) is in the civil parish, parish of Carn Brea, Redruth, Carn Brea, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Trevenson House
Trevenson House was built in 1797 for Thomas Kevill, a ste ...
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